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Dough vs Stairs - What's the difference?

dough | stairs |

As nouns the difference between dough and stairs

is that dough is a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked while stairs is (label) a contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.

As a verb dough

is to make into dough.

dough

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
    • Pizza dough is very stretchy.
  • (slang) Money.
    • His mortgage payments left him short on dough .

    Derived terms

    * doughboy * doughnut * doughy * rolling in dough

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make into dough.
    • The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.

    Derived terms

    *

    stairs

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (label) A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
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    • Synonyms

    * (contiguous set of steps ): stairway, staircase

    Anagrams

    * * English plurals